NOTE: For Windows Server 2008 Failover Clusters, you can also use the Cluster Validation Wizard.

12Configure highly-available applications and services on your failover cluster. Depending on your configuration, this may also require providing additional LUNs to the cluster or creating new cluster resource groups. Test the failover capabilities of the new resources.

13Configure client systems to access the highly available applications and services that are hosted on your failover cluster.

Installation Overview

Each node in your Dell Windows Server failover cluster must have the same release, edition, service pack, and processor architecture of the Windows Server operating system installed. For example, all nodes in your cluster may be configured with Windows Server 2003 R2, Enterprise x64 Edition. If the operating system varies among nodes, it is not possible to configure a failover cluster successfully. It is recommended to establish server roles prior to configuring a failover cluster, depending on the operating system configured on your cluster.

For a list of Dell PowerEdge Servers, Fibre Channel HBAs and switches, and recommended list of operating system variants, specific driver and firmware revisions, see the Cluster Configuration Support Matrices located on Dell High Availablity Cluster website at dell.com/ha.

For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2003 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide. For more information on deploying your cluster with Windows Server 2008 operating systems, see the Dell Failover Clusters with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Installation and Troubleshooting Guide.

The following sub-sections describe steps that must be taken to enable communication between the cluster nodes and your shared Dell/EMC AX4-5 Fibre Channel storage array, and to present disks from the storage array to the cluster. Install and configure the following components on each node:

1The Fibre Channel HBA(s) and driver on each cluster node

2EMC PowerPath on each cluster node

3Zoning, if applicable

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